Shamus Dark Sings Songs for Suicidal Lovers at The Harrison

In the intimate surroundings of this small, but cosy cellar music room, Shamus presents a stripped down version of a show, originally with full cinema screen projection and first aired at London’s Royal Festival Hall and also in the wonderful harbour setting at the Clockenflap Arts Festival in Hong Kong. The evening will feature classic songs by Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart and Thelonius Monk, with some Joy Division and Elvis Costello tunes thrown in to spice things up. Many of the songs are featured on a CD album of the same name that earned rave reviews in Asia and the USA, others from the last CD release, Trouble In Paradise....

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In the intimate surroundings of this small, but cosy cellar music room, Shamus presents a stripped down version of a show, originally with full cinema screen projection and first aired at London’s Royal Festival Hall and also in the wonderful harbour setting at the Clockenflap Arts Festival in Hong Kong. The evening will feature classic songs by Cole Porter, Rogers and Hart and Thelonius Monk, with some Joy Division and Elvis Costello tunes thrown in to spice things up. Many of the songs are featured on a CD album of the same name that earned rave reviews in Asia and the USA, others from the last CD release, Trouble In Paradise.
It won’t be an evening for the faint-hearted, or for those of a nervous disposition, but if you are prepared to be in the company of some of the saddest and most melancholy songs of the 20th century, then bring a hankie or two, just to be on the safe side and as Time Out observed, “don’t forget the Prozac”.

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